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Message: [QUOTE="Roedy Green, post: 628335"] By that you could mean: 1. you wasted your time because you followed the link with a question in mind and the material at the link did not answer your question. If you mean that, please email me with the question an entry did not answer and I will do something about it. I do this many times a day for other people. 2. you wasted time because of the time it takes to put the link in your browser and download the entry. I suggested in another response you try the local Replicator mirror for faster response. see [URL]http://mindprod.com/jgloss/replicator.html[/URL] Links are terse. HTML is unreadable bulk for most newsreaders. I don't see why you consider them analogous other than you don't like them both. Are you seriously suggesting I should post the CONTENTS of every glossary entry every time I now post a link? Surely the screams would be ten times louder. You don't post something that has been posted before. That is spam. What I am doing is a slightly more polite version of "reading the fucking faq". I provide a link to the page they need to read. I used to just give the keyword until people complained. It is just my links that bug you, or links in general? Perhaps it bugs you that I have an canned answer to so many questions on tap. I have been doing this for ten years now. It just adds up. Except for questions about specific third party packages there is not that much new in Java itself each day. I am here primarily to help fledgling programmers in the third world. They often cannot afford text books. They have to make do with my glossary entries and the online docs they point to. [/QUOTE]

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